On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 12:56:03AM +0000, Matt Bernstein wrote: > On Feb 11 Jerome Quelin wrote: > > >In order to apply these rules, I slightly modified your submissions to meet > >the requirements (ie, add a "$_=pop", or a " -l" flag, etc.). If the > >modifications were too important, your submission is counted as "not ok". > > $_=pop returns the last argument, unless there's more magic under the > bonnet. shift gets what you want.
But if there's only one argument, the first argument is also the last. And since pop is 3 character long and shift score an incredibly prolix total of 5 characters... Joy, `/anick -- Drink and dance and laugh and lie Love, the reeling midnight through For tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.) - Dorothy Parker, 'The Flaw in Paganism'